# Debt of Rain (free advance copy)

by [Marisol Graves](https://bervet.com/authors/marisol-graves)

- Genre: Romance
- Out: 15 November 2026
- Ask for a copy: https://bervet.com/arcs/debt-of-rain

## About the book

Darcy Engstrom came to Amagiri with a residency letter, a duffel bag, and a plan. The plan died in the first hour. Now the Duluth-raised medic is patching up street fighters in Old Gion, the last neutral ward in 2074 Greater Tokyo, and learning to fight from a grumpy old ronin who sees something in her the corporations want badly.

Kurogane Takeshi has spent thirty-four years as the most expensive weapon his yakuza family owns. Then he finds his grandfather's buried ledger, and the crest on Old Gion's gate, and a debt his house never paid. Protecting Darcy means turning on his own blood.

When a smiling man from Darcy's past starts filling cages for the towers of Kasumi Heights, the yakuza families, the ninja clans, and a heavily armed robotics firm all want a piece of her. Takeshi has a choice: obey, or burn everything he was born to and stand beside her.

A steamy cyberpunk yakuza romance with a happily ever after, and the first book in the American Ronin series.

Content warnings: explicit sex between consenting adults (including restraint and power play), graphic violence, abduction, limb loss, and references to childhood abuse.

The text of an advance copy is private: only readers the author lets in can read it, and it isn't in this file.

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